OK; A Sailing Post!
(Well, let's call it a boat post.)

I went down to Deltaville last Wednesday to check out the work being done on the boat.  The electronics guys are almost done and they'll be followed up by the workmen at the boat yard where I'm keeping her for the Winter.  There's a long list of things to be done, which I won't bore you with here, but she's up on the hard now and all seems to be progressing nicely.  They were able to get her out of the water and winterized in plenty of time to beat the coldest December in ages.

The following picture shows what's left of some of the "passangers" that I've been hauling around for the last year or so.  They'll all be scraped away and the bottom painted before she's back in the water come Springtime.
I can't wait!!

Decidedly NOT Sanibel!

Another non-sailing post, but you gotta cut me some slack - there's just not that much sailing going on this time of year!  A few days before Christmas, a huge snow storm blew through the Valley and the Waynesboro area got the most accumulation.  (We were even mentioned on Fox News!!)  The snow started about 3:30 pm and this picture was taken about 11:00 the next morning.  That yardstick reads in excess of 25 inches, but what it doesn't show is the remaining 3-4 inches we got as it continued snowing until about dark!

I spent the first day shoveling paths in the back yard in order to [1] insure Patsy's cats wouldn't "take care of business" all over the porch, [2] allow me access to the bird feeders (which you can see in the previous pictue), and grant us access to the trash can in the alley.  The next day I decided that I'd tackle the front walk, even though the plow had only made one pass and I really didn't plan on driving anywhere.

This scene greeted me out front.  Because of drifting, the snow was almost as high as the porch!

The shoveling was hard work, but it made a great substitute for the walks I was no longer able to take.  I managed to later get out to the grocery store on foot and we had enough firewood to keep us warm, so all in all it turned out to be a grand adventure, especially considering it was Christmas.  Even though it rained on the 25th, this was the first truly white Christmas in ages.  (Don't be surprised if you get the following picture on your 2010 card!)